Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
price as they now do in the vicinity of

price as they now do in the vicinity oil
these prosperous Missouri cities.
About 100 miles northwest of Dallas
and Fort Worth are four or five Of the
very best counties in the stAte-Archer,
Wichita, Wilbarger, Baylor and Clay
which have heretofore been occupied by
cattle kings with their vast herds, but
lands have become so valuable and
in such demand for actual settlement
that the owners are now willing to
move their herds to cheaper and more
remote regions, and this fertile and
beautiful section will soon be filed
with an industrious and enterprising
population, and there will be number
Of important towns and st least one city
Of great Importance. General Afford
thinks this will be near the center of
Archer county, because of its geogrsphi-
cal position, about 100 miles west Of
Gainesville, 100 northwest of Dallas and
Fort Worth, and 100 northeast of Abilene,
at the gate of the great Panhandle
of Texas, and in the center of
one of the richest mineral sec
lions on the continent, full of coal,
iron and copper ore. Some of the latter
was assayed by st. Louis chemists re-
Gently, yielding an average of more than
20 per cent. of metallic copper, while the
clay or cOpriferous marlChist surrounding
the ore assayed - per cent. of metallic
copper. The iron ore which exists in
vast deposits yields from 40 to So per
cent. of iron, and an analysis of the btu
minous coal found there shows SO per
cent. carbon, 40 gas, , asa and , damp
ness.
GENERAL AFFORD
argues with great force that if the great
Hecls and Calumet copper mines IN the
Black hills, near Lake Superior, yield g
conglomerate which contains less than 8
per cent. of copper, and for which the
miners have TO delve $500 feet in the
bowels of the earth, and yet on paid-up
capital Of less than 1880, 900 has in the
last few years paid more than S28,009, 900
in cash dividends to it's stockholders, why
should not the deposits in Archer county,
Texas, which are practically on the sur
face, be vastly more valuable?
General Afford says number of rail-
ways are chartered and are now building
through this immediate section of North
Texas, the Fort Worth and Denver, the
Missouri Pacific west from Henrietta, the
Kansas Southern, the AtChison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, and soon the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific, the Wichita and
Winfield; the Abilene, Wichits Falls and
Kansas City; the Houston and Texas
Central, and the Dallas and Archer Coal
and Iron Railways. 1t can hardly be
doubted that when these strong lines Of
railway form functions, not only one but
several important cities will at once
spring into existence.
THE VAST MINERAL RESOURCES
OF this section, so near to US, sre IN
known to the business men of St. Louis,
who are also ignorant Of the feet that
North Texas is to-day the best wheat
section on the continent. Yet General
Afford gives US some official statistics
compiled from data obtained from the
Department Of Agriculture st Washing
ton, which conclusively establishes this
fact. The yield in dollars mot bushels)
per acre in the great wheat stores Of the
Union is IS follows: